Nicholas Smith
@nicholassmith.bsky.social
Making good things easier and bad things harder. I love to be wrong. Really into counting. Montreal (formerly Richmond+DC). EN/FR.
These smug transit experts have lost touch with regular passengers like us. Who thinks they could solve this highly technical issue?
October 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
These smug transit experts have lost touch with regular passengers like us. Who thinks they could solve this highly technical issue?
It occurs to me that the unsafe crossings of cars and trains is the same issue as the unsafe crossings of cars and bikes that also get complained about every so often. The difference is which road users are dying and who society cares about more. (Though I assume few bikers die here as few'd bike.)
October 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
It occurs to me that the unsafe crossings of cars and trains is the same issue as the unsafe crossings of cars and bikes that also get complained about every so often. The difference is which road users are dying and who society cares about more. (Though I assume few bikers die here as few'd bike.)
Have you seen the HUD homepage?
September 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Have you seen the HUD homepage?
Thanks. The stay applies to the entirety of the disqualification until appeals are resolved, and the disqualification is wrt just those two cases.
September 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Thanks. The stay applies to the entirety of the disqualification until appeals are resolved, and the disqualification is wrt just those two cases.
But Kavanaugh said they could go free.
September 13, 2025 at 1:46 AM
But Kavanaugh said they could go free.
They were hauling the pumpkins and squashes into the Plateau Super C today.
September 12, 2025 at 5:57 AM
They were hauling the pumpkins and squashes into the Plateau Super C today.
The top suggestion if you Google his name with the word "letter" is not his manifesto or anything tech but his IMMENSE opposition to a multifamily overlay district in Atherton.
September 7, 2025 at 5:59 AM
The top suggestion if you Google his name with the word "letter" is not his manifesto or anything tech but his IMMENSE opposition to a multifamily overlay district in Atherton.
If you're still in town, check out the brand new (this month!) diverter at Marie-Anne and St André. Quick build, and anecdotally imho traffic on both streets is way down. And they extended the contraflow bike lane on Marie-Anne, meaning you can now legally go from the metro all the way east.
August 29, 2025 at 2:12 AM
If you're still in town, check out the brand new (this month!) diverter at Marie-Anne and St André. Quick build, and anecdotally imho traffic on both streets is way down. And they extended the contraflow bike lane on Marie-Anne, meaning you can now legally go from the metro all the way east.
Challenge: post your last photo(s) taken in DC to show what a hell-hole it is. (These were a few blocks from where the Kennedy Street Crew hung out.)
August 12, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Challenge: post your last photo(s) taken in DC to show what a hell-hole it is. (These were a few blocks from where the Kennedy Street Crew hung out.)
Only issue is this would be two minutes slower than the EMUs they replaced (tbf with no stop at E-M). Here's the 1999 schedule. mgvallieres.com/trains/Horai...
July 25, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Only issue is this would be two minutes slower than the EMUs they replaced (tbf with no stop at E-M). Here's the 1999 schedule. mgvallieres.com/trains/Horai...
Actually it doesn't. You should consider the meaning of the word "near". Feel free to agree with "their km", I can't help you there. He also suggests staying away from the border, “Even if it’s 500, 600 feet from there.” Odd thing to say if he's 49,000 feet away.
July 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Actually it doesn't. You should consider the meaning of the word "near". Feel free to agree with "their km", I can't help you there. He also suggests staying away from the border, “Even if it’s 500, 600 feet from there.” Odd thing to say if he's 49,000 feet away.
A whole chapter!
July 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
A whole chapter!
The German and Danish Wikipedias agree that it was to avoid reversing trains at the old station in the centre of town. Changed in 1927. But now fast trains bypass the station and regional trains don't through run so everything reversed anyway.
July 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The German and Danish Wikipedias agree that it was to avoid reversing trains at the old station in the centre of town. Changed in 1927. But now fast trains bypass the station and regional trains don't through run so everything reversed anyway.
Exactly five minutes (14:21-14:26). It was a little late earlier on, then caught up, then crawled into Frederica. Both trains left together racing each other before the flying junction, with the Copenhagen-bound dual-mode train having switched to electric at the station.
July 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Exactly five minutes (14:21-14:26). It was a little late earlier on, then caught up, then crawled into Frederica. Both trains left together racing each other before the flying junction, with the Copenhagen-bound dual-mode train having switched to electric at the station.
Just France. Quebec/Canada, as is often the case, is more French than France. fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lime_(f...
![Definition from the Government of Quebec's Grand Dictionnaire Terminologique:
lime [n.f.]
Domaines
botaniqueanatomie et morphologie végétales
alimentationfruit
Auteur
Office québécois de la langue française
Dernière mise à jour
2017
Accéder à la fiche en anglais : lime
Accéder à la fiche en latin : Citrus aurantifolia
Définition :
Agrume de forme ronde ou ovale, à écorce fine jaunâtre à maturité, à pulpe vert pâle très acide et aromatique.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mljipjdzsgrdhgqgisxlo5xn/bafkreig5pt6jihcda6gjts3exbfjrowx3crsyotxkrpdgf2lrkyg5zaz3q@jpeg)
July 2, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Just France. Quebec/Canada, as is often the case, is more French than France. fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lime_(f...
Montreal doesn't have a ton of really natural settings easily accessible by transit, but it does have some.
June 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Montreal doesn't have a ton of really natural settings easily accessible by transit, but it does have some.
Hi, inflation expert here. This is not funny, countries only do this when they're in extreme distress.
June 30, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Hi, inflation expert here. This is not funny, countries only do this when they're in extreme distress.
My most evergreen election maxim:
June 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My most evergreen election maxim:
If you saw "Project Delivery" in Winter 2026 in this Crystal City to DCA Bike/Ped bridge Gantt chart, what do you think that means by Winter 2026:
1. The bridge would be open to the public
2. The bridge would be built
3. The bridge would be designed
1. The bridge would be open to the public
2. The bridge would be built
3. The bridge would be designed
June 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
If you saw "Project Delivery" in Winter 2026 in this Crystal City to DCA Bike/Ped bridge Gantt chart, what do you think that means by Winter 2026:
1. The bridge would be open to the public
2. The bridge would be built
3. The bridge would be designed
1. The bridge would be open to the public
2. The bridge would be built
3. The bridge would be designed
They may not allow high platforms, but the absolutely allow trains with high platform doors.
June 15, 2025 at 11:37 PM
They may not allow high platforms, but the absolutely allow trains with high platform doors.
Right, but the numbers I gave for the election are the Atlas Intel poll numbers for 18-29 last fall, which Chaz quoted in his piece. So both are for young voters.
June 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Right, but the numbers I gave for the election are the Atlas Intel poll numbers for 18-29 last fall, which Chaz quoted in his piece. So both are for young voters.
This was Laurier Park in the Plateau. I've seen it elsewhere in the Plateau, right next to Sherbrooke. Westmount actually didn't have a curfew until about 15 years ago, and it's still laxer than Montreal's. Outremont starts at 11. Here's Cambridge, Mass. Closes at dusk nearly half the year.
June 8, 2025 at 11:58 PM
This was Laurier Park in the Plateau. I've seen it elsewhere in the Plateau, right next to Sherbrooke. Westmount actually didn't have a curfew until about 15 years ago, and it's still laxer than Montreal's. Outremont starts at 11. Here's Cambridge, Mass. Closes at dusk nearly half the year.
There is actually a locked gate separating the two stations, part of a very short fence that's easy to jump over, but there's good chance you'd get fined, and either way you end up on the wrong side of the Via train, which uses the far (station) platform and only has a wooden board level crossing.
May 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
There is actually a locked gate separating the two stations, part of a very short fence that's easy to jump over, but there's good chance you'd get fined, and either way you end up on the wrong side of the Via train, which uses the far (station) platform and only has a wooden board level crossing.